Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Mindful Of Pripyat - …And Deeper, I Drown In Doom…

If I can be honest with you, I
got into this band only for one reason and that is the fact it features Giulia,
a’ka Doomed Warrior on guitar. I love her work from another band, Into
Darkness, which she formed some years ago. Into Darkness quickly became one of
my favourite new, old styled death metal bands, because they sound a lot like
my perfect, complete death metal band. I mean the music is always obscure,
dark, sick and it’s so damn heavy and doomy that every time I listen to some
music of Into Darkness, I can literally see the walls crackling. So, if Giulia
is participating in new band, I am into it! And this band is called Mindful Of
Pripyat. I know, quite an unusual name, but it’s taken from the Ukrainian city
called Pripyat, which is an abandoned city close to Chernobyl. This is a ghost
city (about 50000 people lived there before the disaster), I’ve never been
there, but the pictures of it – of all those deserted schools, buildings, the
Ferris wheel, etc – look just damn scary. You know, this is your “Silent Hill”
town in real haha! So, quite cool choice for the band name, right?

Now, as for the music, Mindful
Of Pripyat presents us their debut EP “…And Deeper, I Drown In Doom…”. And the
title, especially if we know Into Darkness, can be misleading with that “doom”
word in it haha. As no trace of doom can be found here! It’s actually the
fuckin opposite, and the music blasts like damn crazy in the good old fashioned
grind core / death metal style! Ha, what a surprise. And so, what we get are 16
tracks closed in slightly over 20 minutes! Ha, classic grind, with short,
totally in your face, straight forward, fast and brutal songs. It’s nothing
particularly surprising nor original, but damn awesome and cool for sure. I do
enjoy this album a lot, I mean it just erupts with nuclear energy and power, it’s
really damn strong and powerful. I like the sound, the riffs, vocals… and I am
sure that if you’re into classic stuff like Terrorizer, Lock Up, Rotten Sound,
Nasum, maybe even Napalm Death, then you’ll also dig this band a lot. Mindful
Of Pripyat doesn’t complex anything; their formula for the music is rather
simple and they never really try to step in with something different, what would
be a problem if it created a longer, one dimensional album. Luckily, this is
just 20 minutes of music, so you don’t really bother. Maybe it also cause that
feeling of songs coming one ear in, another ear out and you don’t really recognize
many standout tracks or even fragments, but I suppose that the unstoppable energy
and brutality of this music makes up for it. I enjoyed “…And Deeper, I Drown In
Doom…” a lot, so all I can do now is to recommend this CD to you all. It was
released on Bizarre Leprous Productions, limited to 500 copies. So, put your
gas masks on and blast it!